Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.